Shade-bracket.



C. F. GRAHAM.

SHADE BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED mus. 1915.

EL ?,5$ $?8 v Patented Jan. 15, 1918.

WlTNESSEs m fl BY w n ATTORNEY CHARLES E. GRAHAM, or DAYTON, OHIO.

SHADE-BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. i5, 191%..

Application filed Januaiy 26, 1916. Serial N 0. 74,453.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLns F. GRAHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and'useful Improvements in Shade-Brackets, of which the following. is aspecification.

This invention relates to supports for shade rollers, curtains and the like and has for its primary object to provide a shaderoller hanger that can be easily and quickly attached to a window casing and from which it may be removed without materially marring or injuring the window casing.

Another object of the invention is to provide a shade-roller bracket comprising a wire bent into a substantially U shape with prongs whereby it may be fastened to a window frame, and a closed end slidably engaging the window frame, the wire being bowed to give the bracket a certain degree of resiliency when the shade is raised and lowered.

A further object of this invention is the provision of a bracket for a shade-roller which will be adapted to be inter-changeable with respect to the ends of the roller and which will be constructed from a single strand of wire.

Another object of the invention is to provide a shade support including a bowed strand having a laterally offset portion with a loop for receiving the pintle of a shade roller, the lateral offset portion being arranged to permit the shade to play thereover so as to prevent the edge of the shade from being mutilated which it would do were it permitted to bear against the edge of the shade bracket.

For a full description of the invention and the advantages and merits thereof, reference is to be had to the following description and the accompanying drawings, wherein is illustrated the preferred form of my invention in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my bracket, showing the same attached to a window casing.

Fig. 2 is a section through the upper part of the window casing showing the bracket in side elevation attached thereto.

The window casing is indicated at A and the shade-roller B having the trunnion or pintle C formed thereon in the usual manner as indicated by dotted lines. As is well known in hanging shade-rollers to a window casing, it is the custom to provide a fixture or a bracket at each end of the shade-roller, one containing a keeper for the square trunnion at one end of the shade roller and the other bracket having a keeper for the cylindrical trunnionat the other end of the shaderoller. It becomes necessary therefore to have two separate designs for the fixtures or brackets necessitating considerable more can pense than would occur if the brackets were identical.

In obviating this difficulty, I construct a bracket from a single strand of wire, the ends of which are provided with prongs or securing pins 1 bent at right angles to the wire, while extending from the pins 1 are the arms 2 adapted to rest upon the top edge of the window casing. A continuation of the arms 2 is provided to form spring-bowed arms 3 which are connected at their opposite ends by a'bar 4 which is adapted to rest against the window casing to hold the spring-bowed arms 3 away from the casing for a distance great enough to allow the free rotation of the shade-roller.

In these bends, arms 5 and 6 are disposed opposite to each other as clearly shown by Fig. 1 of the drawing.

Connected to each of the arms 5 and 6 is the member 7 one of which has formed therein a circular loop 8 which is designed for the reception of the cylindrical trunnion of one end of the shade-roller. The opposite member 7 is bent in substantially shape to provide a groove 9 for the reception of the square trunnion C at the opposite end of the shade-roller.

From this construction it will be observed that the bend or bo provided in the arms 3 allows a resiliency for the shade-roller and at the same time retains the shade-roller in a position far enough away from the win dow casing to allow the free rotation of the shade-roller. By reason of the bar A resting against the casing, the spring-bowed arms are free for springing movement whenever the weight of the shade-roller decreases or increases.

It. is commonly known that shade brackets ordinarily constructed, bear closely against the end of the shade roller and it also occurs that in raising and lowering the shade, the shade rides over the end of the roller and wears against the adjacent shade bracket thus mutilating the shade and making it very unsightly. In my shade bracket, the ofisets 7 serves to space the shade roller far Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing Washington, D. C.

enough away from the mode members 3 of the shade bracket to preventthe mutilation of the edge of the shade. It should be observed that the offset members are of a less diametrical dimension than that of the shade roller and it therefore follows that should the shade exhibit a tendency to ride over past the edge of the roller, it will have play across the extension which is sufficient for the purpose above stated.

I claim: i

l. A shade bracket formed of wire bent into a substantially U shape and bowed outwardly, the ends of the bent wire being sharpened'for driving into a window frame and the closed ends of the bow resting against the window frame, the intermediate portions of the bows being bent to form lat eral offsets having loops for receiving a pintle of a shade roller, said bowed portion providing a resilient support for the shade roller, the closedend of the bow sliding upon the window frame.

2. A shade bracket consisting of a wire bent upon itself to form a substantially U shaped supporting body comprising outwardly bowed strands bent intermediate their lengths to form oflsets with pintle receiving loops centered on the offsets to receive a shade roller pintle centrally thereof, each offset being less in width than the diameter of the shade roller to permit play of the shade over the offset and prevent mutilation of the edge of the shade by wearing against the shade bracket. 7 r 1 y In testimony whereof I afi'ix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES F. GRAHAM.

Witnesses: V

GUsTAV BECKER, Jr., WILLIAM OSMER.

the Commissioner of Patents, 

